s/(?<!SHOOTING YOURSELF IN THE )FOOT/HEAD/g Most of us have tried at one time or another to use regular expressions to do things we shouldn’t: parsing HTML, obfuscating code, washing dishes, etc. This is what the technical term “showing off”…
For some, regular expressions provide the chainsaw functionality of the much-touted Perl “Swiss Army knife” metaphor. They are powerful, fast, and very sharp, but like real chainsaws, can be dangerous when used without appropriate safety measures. In this article…
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